Improvement in attaching handles to cutlery



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Letters Patent No. 103,867, dated June 7 1870. n

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING- HADLES TO CUTLERY.

Ihe Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making par: of thesame 'lo all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J osErH W. GARDNER, of Shelburne Falls, inthe countyof Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fastening Table-Knives and other Cutlery to theirHandles; and I do hereby declare tlle'following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings making a part of this specification, in which- A Figure 1represents aview of a completed knife; Figure 2 represents a sectionthrough the same; and

Figure 3 represents one of thetached from the knife, interior.

Similar letters, where they occur in the separate figures, refer to likeparts in all of the drawings.

This invention relates to a very simple, cheap, and

cheek-pieces deand turned over to show itsA ecient way of uniting ashort-tanged knifev or fork to its handle in a firm and nnyieldingmanner.

To enable others skilled in-the art to make and use my invention,- Iwill proceed to describe the same, with reference to the drawings.

The blade A of the knife, or shank of a fork, is made with a shortdovetailed tang, a., and with a small tapering piece,A c, projectingrearward from the tang.

The handle B, made of any of the known material used for the purpose,has a recess formed in it to receive this tapered portion c.

Two side or cheek-pieces, C C, are then prepared, as more distinctlyseen in iig. 3, with a shoulder, as at e, so as to lie up close to orinto a recess in the handle, 'and with a dovetail recess at j, toreceive the dovetailed tanga.

What I claim,- as a device for fastening vknives andother articles totheir handles, is

In combination with -the dovetailed tang a, the sirnilarly-recessed side or cheek-pieces C C for holding themselves and the blade or fork tothe handle, by suitable rivets, as described and represented.

, J. W. GARDNER.`

Titnessesz F. A. BALL, H. O. SMITH.

